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Originally Posted by Mivo
Are there any books on writing that you particularly loved and learned much from? (Those may be different answers. I greatly enjoyed reading Stephen King's On Writing, and found it immensely entertaining, but it was inspiring more than it was educating.)
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I haven't read many. I liked Stephen King's
On Writing. One I remember from way back when was
Sweet Agony – A Writing Manual of Sorts, by Gene Olsen. I don't think it's available as an eBook. It looks like they put out
Sweet Agony II about ten years later, but I haven't read that one (also doesn't appear to be available as an eBook). When I was "self-publishing" (so to speak) a small press magazine, I had a trio of
Element books that were pretty good –
Elements of Style, Elements of Grammar and
Elements of Editing. It looks like there are two
Elements of Grammar now. Not sure which one I had. At the time they were all in matching covers (kind of promoted as a set). It doesn't look like they do that now.